Ahhh. Not that misinformation again! I'm a ghost 8 user, but it's FAR from being a replacement for defragging (reimaging for defragging is like rebuilding your house instead of repainting it). In fact, it's funny how my drives are ALWAYS framented right after reimaging them (yeah, free space's always at the end though - like with any disk imaging app)... Decent drive imaging app, but that's all it is... Nothing more.

That's because you're required to defrag yourself before reimaging. The imaging software don't defrag for you, AFAIK.

That's because you're required to defrag yourself before reimaging.

Believe me, I've tried that. My main issue that made me look into this wasn't that I was upset it didn't produce a totally defragged partition. It was that even if you create an image from a fully defragged partition, once you dump it, it's now fragmented (of course, unless you've made a huge sector for sector image of the entire thing). And like I've said before, perhaps it somewhat works better for FAT16/32 systems, but I wouldn't use those for anything anyways (besides portable flash media).

The imaging software don't defrag for you, AFAIK.

Well, that's what he claims (and like we were saying before, perhaps I should just ghost my video server onto some 2TB RAID array and dump it back, it'll be nice and defragged then? Disk Imaging != Defragging). Nonsense...

After XP Pro

1. Firefox

2. Daemon Tools

3. Winamp

4. MediaMonkey

5. Hijack This

6. Office XP

7. NOD 32

8. Trillian

9. Adobe Photoshop CS2

10. Fruityloops

but there are so many more like Reason, Traktor and some stuff to play/rip dvd's etc

Edited September 16, 200619 yr by sylvianorth

10. Fruityloops

lmao...

^ that's a real program. its used for making sounds loops I think.

Fruityloops is a music making program - you can create full songs with it. The developer also made another program called Buzz Tracker, which I found much easier to use.

here.. my list :

[1] office2003

[2] kaspersky av 6

[3] zone alarm pro

[4] ccleaner

[5] Spybot - Search & Destroy

[6] winrar

[7] msn messenger

[8] winamp

[9] Adobe Reader

[10] firefox

Thats my 1st ten!

winXP

word & excel

flashget

irfan view

winXp DDK

uplus sync

visual c# express edition

windows xp professional

diskeeper

adobe reader

winrar

download accelerator plus

ai roboform

webshots

zone alarm

spyware doctor

registry mechanic

1) Winrar

2) Total Commander

3) AVG Free

4) Daemon Tools

5) Mozilla Firefox & Thunderbird

6) Photoshop

7) Office

8) Winamp 2

9) AcdSee32

10) UltraEdit-32

Edited September 22, 200619 yr by The X

Well... It's hard to keep my list just 10.

1. NOD32

2. Ace Utilities CCleaner

3. Adobe Reader

4. Alcohol 120%

5. Azureus

6. Diskeeper

7. Firefox

8. Java RE

9. WinRar

10. Xvid

Then I eventually install these, when the situation calls for it...

Power DVD

Quicktime

VLC Media Player

Winamp

EAC

Nero 6.6.0.16

Paint.NET

VMware

Edited November 27, 200619 yr by 1boredguy

1 nod32

2 nero 6 ultra

3 ms office 2003

4 utorrent

5 convertxtodvd

6 dvdfab platinum

7 limwire pro

8 7zip

9 winrar

10 winamp

11 daemon tools

12 vista codec pack

13 adobe reader

14 fast stone image viewer

15 cc cleaner

16 adaware 2007

Here's my most valued applications

Acronis True Image Home

nLite

WMware Workstation

7-Zip

Media Player Classic

ffdshow tryouts

foobar2000

Exact Audio Copy

Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Thunderbird

ImgBurn

Burrrn

UltimateDefrag

uTorrent

ESET NOD32

RegSnap

Edited July 13, 200719 yr by Martin H

My top 10 Not necessarily in the correct order;

1. Avast! Antivirus

2. Comodo Firewall

3. Opera

4. Adobe Dreamweaver

5. Adobe Flash

6. Hijack This!

7. CCleaner

8. uTorrent

9. Nero

10. WinRar

This was not an easy go. I have far too many apps that I value for their multitudes of functionality. Don't we all!

Anyway, Keep Postin! Alot of good App Idea's in here. Thanks to everyone for Sharing!

Tough one, if you exclude Windows itself (and perhaps the obvious like MS Office), and "too specialized" apps (like Altium Designer):

1. Firefox & extensions
   
2. Visual Studio 2008 & various dev tools
   
3. SyInternals Suite
   
4. VMware
   
5. Photoshop CS3
   
6. Media Player Classic (bundled in K-Lite)
   
7. VirtualDubMod (in combination with AviSynth)
   
8. Wireshark
   
9. ACDSee
   
10. Winamp
    

Runners up:

1. Acronis True Image (getting replaced by ImageX)
   
2. Nero (imgburn is starting to replace it for a lot of tasks)
   
3. ultraedit/notepad++ (both have their strenghts)
   
4. WinRAR (7zip is getting there)
   
5. Foxit Reader
   
6. CCleaner
   
7. Daemon Tools
   
8. UltraIso
   
9. FtpRush
   
10. SnagIt